A $30 Billion drop in the market value of stock from three major drug companies

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A $30 Billion drop in the market value of stock from three major drug

companies!!! From the New York Times we read the breaking news from the last

few days

which lead to the drop in value:

" In less than 12 hours . . .

- Pfizer said that it had found increased risk of heart problems for people

taking Celebrex, a painkiller that is one of the world's best-selling

medicines.

- AstraZeneca reported that a trial of Iressa, a lung cancer drug approved

in the United States last year, showed that the drug did not prolong lives.

- And Eli Lilly warned doctors that Strattera, its drug to treat attention

deficit disorder, usually in children, had caused severe liver injury in at

least two patients.

" Investors punished all three companies, sending Pfizer stock down 11.2

percent, AstraZeneca down 7.7 percent and Eli Lilly down 2.4 percent.

Collectively,

the declines reduced the market value of the three companies by more than

$30

billion, worsening the industry's weak performance this year. "

I encourage you all to go to the New York Times www.newyorktimes.com and

read

all of the articles to come out in just the last few days - one after

another

blasting the FDA and the pharmaceutical companies for what they have been

caught doing to us all over the last several years. It is heart warming to

see

the truth coming out in the country's leading newspaper.

Dr.